I ended up giving up on spinning for the hat, a few days in the 90s and I wanted to have a hat to wear, so.. I picked up some cotton/alpaca worsted weight. I'm still going to spin some flax to make myself another hat in the same style, but.. this means that I have a summer hat in the meantime. Upside? It turned out *adorable* if I say so myself. :D

The knitting experiment is going well, I ripped out the first stretch of it because it was wrong, but the second batch is going really well. Counting my rows is *definitely* helping. (yeah, yeah, funny that!) :D